Phototuts+ Quiz #18: Portraits

Phototuts+ Quiz #18: Portraits

on Sep 8th 2012 with 10 comments
This entry is part 15 of 15 in the How to Shoot Perfect Portraits Session
« Previous

Today, you’ll have another chance to try one of our Phototuts+ quizzes. Is you’re camera always pointed at other people? See how much you know about the craft. Get crackin’ after the jump! And don’t forget to share you results in the comments.

 
Enjoyed this Post?

Subscribe to our RSS Feed, Follow us on Twitter or simply recommend us to friends and colleagues!

By

Rollover to read this author's bio or click through to see a full list of posts by this author.

I was raised in the suburbs of Cincinnati, Ohio. After high school, I left for Western Kentucky University where I obtained degrees in photojournalism and cultural anthropology. I am currently employed by CityBeat, an arts and entertainment weekly in Cincinnati. The work I am doing here is very rewarding and I suspect it will continue to be. I am available for freelance work in all areas of photography.  

Plus Premium
 
 
  • http://secondglancephotos.com Kevin

    86.6% Missed the what causes soft focus in the lens and one other. Dang.

  • John Wiltshire

    73.33%. I didn’t realise I knew so much.

  • http://www.twitter.com/jamiewillmott Jamie Willmott

    I did the same, missed the cause of soft focus and one of the ‘which photographer…’ questions.

  • http://thephotophile.blogspot.se/ Lanthus Clark

    Haha! 80%
    :^)

  • Stan

    Question 6 doesn’t make sense – how does the aperture blade make a lens a soft-focus lens?

    • http://ckpj.com Cameron Knight
      Author

      Soft focus lenses are a specialty lens. In order to get the blurry but not really blurry look, the aperture blades are altered so they create many holes instead of just one. For normal lenses, the aperture has one hole. For a soft focus lens, the many holes of varying size create spherical aberrations. This causes the image to appear soft, but retain most of its edge sharpness. That’s why I said early, “blurry, but not really blurry.” Some early lenses were labeled as “soft focus” because their designs themselves were not great and created the aberrations, but these days, you get aperture modifications. One of the only current soft focus lenses is the Canon EF 135mm 2.8. You can see a stream of photos taken with this lens here – http://www.flickriver.com/lenses/canon/canonef135mmf28withsoftfocus/ – and this particular image really shows off the effect – http://www.flickr.com/photos/tom_peillon/7144265687/

      • Stan

        Thanks! had heard of soft focus lens but had never known how they worked.

  • http://www.bicalam.com هاشم

    salam
    سلام im windows تو چی هستی

  • Mark

    93.33% those darn aperture blades ;-)

  • http://www.flickr.com/photos/2007828/ Andrew Shenouda

    Well I’m 73.33%… I have a lot to learn :)))